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Landscape Regions of New York State Rose Procopio, Ellen Hansen and George Lombardo Directions • The following Powerpoint presentation contains photographs and questions of landscape features of NYS. Follow the Powerpoint presentation slide-by-slide and answer questions. Record your answers on the answer sheet provided. 1) How many landscape regions are there in NYS? St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain 2) TRUE or FALSE: The Adirondack Mountains are composed of the same rock type formed during the same geologic time. Nylndsc1.shp Nygeol.shp CamOrdo Met Cambrian Seds Cret, Tert, Pleistocene Devonian Lake Champlain Lake Wallkill OrdoCam Met OrdoCam Seds Ordovician Seds Paleozoic Mafic Penn & Miss Silurian Syenite Taconic Triassic mProt Anorthosite mProt Gneiss/Qzt/Mar mProt Granite St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills N Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 3) How many different ages of rocks are represented on the map? Nylndsc1.shp Nygeol.shp CamOrdo Met Cambrian Seds Cret, Tert, Pleistocene Devonian Lake Champlain Lake Wallkill OrdoCam Met OrdoCam Seds Ordovician Seds Paleozoic Mafic Penn & Miss Silurian Syenite Taconic Triassic mProt Anorthosite mProt Gneiss/Qzt/Mar mProt Granite St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills N Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 4) Which landscape region is located furthest south? Which one is located furthest north? St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain 5) Use your answer sheet to fill in the table. For rock type, indicate whether the rock is igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. 6) Categorize the following landscape regions as high, medium or low elevation. St. Lawrence Lowlands Nylndsc1.shp Nystate.shp Ny500ft.shp 0 - 1000 1001 - 1500 1501 - 2000 2001 - 2500 2501 - 4000 Cham plain Lowlands Adir ondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-M ohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills Hudson Highlands Manhattan P rong Atlantic Coastal Plain N W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 7) Using a previous slide, rank the following landscape regions from oldest to youngest. • • • • • • St. Lawrence Lowlands Taconic Mountains Allegheny Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Atlantic Coastal Plain 8) What part of the Adirondack Mountain shows the steepest slope? St. Law rence Low lands Nylndsc1.shp Nystate.shp Ny500ft.shp 0 - 1000 1001 - 1500 1501 - 2000 2001 - 2500 2501 - 4000 Cham plain Low lands Adir ondack Mountains Tug H ill Plateau Erie-Ontario Low lands Taconic Mountains Hudson-M ohaw k Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills Hudson H ighlands Manhattan P rong Atlantic C oastal Plain N W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 9) What is the general age of the bedrock in the Alleghany Plateau. Nylndsc1.shp Nygeol.shp CamOrdo Met Cambrian Seds Cret, Tert, Pleistocene Devonian Lake Champlain Lake Wallkill OrdoCam Met OrdoCam Seds Ordovician Seds Paleozoic Mafic Penn & Miss Silurian Syenite Taconic Triassic mProt Anorthosite mProt Gneiss/Qzt/Mar mProt Granite St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills N Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 10) In which landscape region would you most likely find the following rock? 11) In which landscape region do you live? St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain 12) Which rock type is most abundant in NYS? Nylndsc1.shp Nygeol.shp CamOrdo Met Cambrian Seds Cret, Tert, Pleistocene Devonian Lake Champlain Lake Wallkill OrdoCam Met OrdoCam Seds Ordovician Seds Paleozoic Mafic Penn & Miss Silurian Syenite Taconic Triassic mProt Anorthosite mProt Gneiss/Qzt/Mar mProt Granite St. Lawrence Lowlands Adirondack Mountains Tug Hill Plateau Erie-Ontario Lowlands Taconic Mountains Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands Allegheny Plateau Catskills N Manhattan Prong Atlantic Coastal Plain W E S 100 0 100 200 Miles 13) In which landscape region would you find little or no sites containing sand and gravel and why? Green dots represent sand and gravel sites across NYS. ## ## # # # ## # # ## ## # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # ### ## # # ## # # ## ###### # ### # # ### # ## # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # ### # ## # # ## # # ## # # # ## # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ## ## ### ## ## # # # ####### # # # # ## 14) Why are sand and gravel sites so abundant in NYS? ## ## # # # ## # # # ## # ## # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # ## ###### # # # #### # # # ### ## ## # #### # ### # # # # # ## # # ## # # ## # # ### # ## # # ## # # # ## # ## # # # # # # # # # ## ## ## ## ## ## ### # ####### # # # # ## 15) This rock contains various sized clasts in a cement glue. In which landscape regions would this rock be found? 16) On your answer sheet, calculate the gradient between the two points on the map below. S # S # Thank you for traveling the landscapes of NYS with us! Here are some websites of landscapes in NYS for your viewing pleasure..enjoy! • http://www.adk.org/ • http://www.adirondacks.com/adkhist ory.html • http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/j_b_ bennington/ny_geology/erie_ontario/ erie_ontario.html • http://www.tughillregion.com/ • http://www.catskillcenter.org/region.html • http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/j_b_benni ngton/ny_geology/manhattan_prong/manh attan_prong.html • http://vmc.snr.uvm.edu/BullBd/bprpage.ht m • http://www.aft.altoona-pa.com/vistapic.html THE END!